Cease Quote by E. P. Thompson

Construed as a means instead of an end, history is the weapon with which we defend the future against the past.

— Lewis H. Lapham

History is, indeed, an argument without end.

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

History is an argument without end.

— Pieter Geyl

“History is made only by those who oppose history (not by those who insert themselves into it, or even reshape it).”

— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari

History can be a weapon, and it can be used against you.

— James W. Loewen

History remains an open horizon that cannot be dismissed through appeals to the end of history or end of ideology.

— Henry Giroux

“The people who criticize me are ignorant of what history is, because the very fact that the student of history chooses what to include…

— Teodoro A. Agoncillo

“...history is a selection process - it chooses moments and events, and even people - it hands them a situation that they shouldn't be…

— Brad Meltzer

History can't be left to fend for itself. For when it comes to history and beliefs and values, we turn our future on the…

— Max De Pree

History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable.

— Joseph Joubert

The great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and…

— Anonymous

To have a sense of history one must consider oneself a piece of history....

— Alfred Kazin